12 Bidders for Jabalpur Ring Road’s Construction Contracts

12 firms have submitted bids for 112 km Jabalpur Ring Road project packages…

02 Mar 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 7 Comments
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Trial Assembly for Bangalore Metro ORR Line’s Steel Girder Completed

Steel Infra Solution in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh on Monday completed trial assembly…

01 Mar 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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12 Bidders for Kanpur Ring Road Package 4’s Construction

12 firms have submitted bids for the civil construction contract of 93.2 km…

01 Mar 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 10 Comments
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PNC Wins Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor C23’s Contract

April 7, 2023 Update: HRIDC has issued LOA to PNC for Package C-23’s civil…

28 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor ⋅ 2 Comments
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Delhi-Meerut RRTS Tunnels’ Track-Bed Concreting Work Begins

With the completion of 3 of 6 tunnels on the 82.15 km Delhi – Meerut RRTS project’s…

28 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 5 Comments
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Megha & KNR Win Bangalore-Vijayawada Expressway’s Contracts

Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd (MEIL) and KNR Constructions Ltd….

28 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 7 Comments
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DMRC Begins DPR Work for NDLS – Knowledge Park II Metro Line

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has initiated work to prepare a Detailed…

27 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro, Noida & Greater Noida Metro ⋅ 15 Comments
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Afcons’ Delhi Metro Silver Line TBM 372 Passes Factory Tests

Tunnel boring machine manufacturer Robbins last week completed factory acceptance…

27 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Alstom Awarded Delhi Metro Silver Line’s Signaling Contract DS06

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) this week awarded Alstom Transport India with a Rs. 219.59 crore contact for the train-control and signaling solution…

26 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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Bharat Constructions Wins Jammu Ring Road’s Twin Tunnel Contract

Bharat Constructions India Pvt. Ltd. (BCIPL) on Thursday was declared as the lowest bidder to construct 1.46 km twin-tube tunnels on the 57.8 km Jammu…

26 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Tunnels ⋅ 2 Comments
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L&T Lowers Delhi Metro Silver Line’s 1st Tunnel Boring Machine DZ1122

Larsen & Toubro on Thursday & Friday lowered TBM DZ1122 – the first ever tunnel boring machine at Chhatarpur Station of Delhi Metro’s 23.622…

26 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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L&T Launches Chennai Metro Line-5 ECV-02’s 1st Pier Cap

Larsen & Toubro on Wednesday morning erected their first 9.5m wide pier cap for Package C5-ECV-02 of Chennai Metro Phase 2’s 47 km Line-5 which…

25 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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JKIL & ACIL Bid for Mumbai Line-2B’s Station Finishing Work

J Kumar Infraprojects and Ahluwalia Contracts (India) are the only 2 bidders for the pre-engineered building (PEB) roof and architectural finishing contract…

25 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 11 Comments
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L&T’s Bangalore Metro TBM Vindhya Records Final Breakthrough

Larsen & Toubro’s tunnel boring machine Vindhya (DZ671) on Friday evening recorded its third & final breakthrough at Shadi Mahal TBM Retrieval…

25 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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Commencement date of metro operations along with current operational length:

• Kolkata: 24 October 1984 – 73.1 km
• Delhi: 24 December 2002 – 353.3 km
• Bangalore: 20 October 2011 – 94.3 km
• Gurgaon: 14 November 2013 – 12.1 km
• Mumbai: 8 June 2014 – 79.5 km
• Jaipur: 3 June 2015 – 12 km
• Chennai: 29 June 2015 – 54.1 km
• Kochi: 19 June 2017 – 27.9 km
• Lucknow: 6 September 2017 – 22.9 km
• Hyderabad: 29 November 2017 – 67 km
• Noida-Gr. Noida: 25 January 2019 – 29.7 km
• Ahmedabad: 6 March 2019 – 60.7 km
• Nagpur: 8 March 2019 – 38.2 km
• Kanpur – 29 December 2021 – 16 km
• Pune: 6 March 2022 – 31.2 km
• Navi Mumbai: 17 November 2023 – 11.1 km
• Agra: March 6 2024 – 5.2 km
• Indore: May 31 2025 – 5.8 km
• Patna: October 6, 2025 – 3.2 km
• Bhopal: December 21, 2025 – 6.2 km

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